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Showcase Your “Spike Factor” in Rotman MBA Application Essays
September 4, 2024
Rotman Application Essay Tips, 2024-2025 Rotman is all about “spike factor,” asking you to use 500 words to explain your “spike” and offering you the option to upload up to three of your “spikiest” pictures to support your claims. On campus, you can feel the excitement and positive momentum of this program firsthand. From the…
Tips for Your UNC Kenan-Flagler Application Essays
August 30, 2024
UNC Kenan-Flagler Application Essay Tips, 2024-2025 UNC Kenan-Flagler is bucking tradition this year by not changing its essay prompts. The school’s first essay question has stayed remarkably consistent over many years and asks you to outline your short-term professional goal, explain how a Kenan-Flagler MBA will help you, and offer a “backup” plan in the…
Tips for your Oxford Saïd Application Essays
August 23, 2024
Oxford Saïd Application Essay Tips, 2024-2025 Oxford Saïd business school takes great pride in being part of a “world-class university, tackling world-class problems.” The school attracts a diverse student body made up of individuals from all areas of life who are motivated to drive change and turn ideas into action. The program’s main 250-word essay…
Tips for Your Cornell Johnson Application Essays
August 8, 2024
Cornell Johnson School Application Essay Tips, 2024–2025 Cornell Johnson has a small, close-knit community and an amiable culture with an international focus and an emphasis on collaboration. The school looks for candidates who will have an impact on the program both as students and after graduation. Leadership, teamwork skills, the ability to analyze problems, and…
Tips for Your UCLA Anderson Application Essays
July 18, 2024
UCLA Anderson Application Essay Tips, 2024-2025 What makes UCLA Anderson stand out among MBA programs is its location in a large city with many different industries, its collaborative culture, and the flexibility it offers to customize your business school experience. Anderson looks for applicants who embody the school’s three pillars: sharing success, thinking fearlessly, and…
Tips for Your Chicago Booth Application Essay
July 17, 2024
Chicago Booth Application Essay Tips, 2024-2025 Chicago Booth, while well-known for its quantitative approach and highly flexible curriculum, continues to use the application process to identify strong qualitative thinkers who offer a broad diversity of experiences that will bring variety to class discussions and add complexity to the team dynamics the school emphasizes. Indeed, through…
Tips for Your Georgetown McDonough Essays
July 16, 2024
Tips for your Georgetown McDonough 2024-25 Application Essays Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business’s 2024–2025 application is one of the most flexible, with a required video essay, plus three options for your main essay. Which one should you choose? The answer will be different for everyone, so focus on the question that you can most…
Tips for Your Wharton Application Essays
July 9, 2024
Wharton MBA Application Essay Tips, 2024-2025 For its application essays, Wharton doubles down and asks two questions that both require you to present your knowledge of its program. In short, Wharton really wants to know that you want to be at the school. So, thoroughly do your homework before you start writing — talk to…
Tips for Your MIT Sloan Application Essays
July 8, 2024
MIT Sloan Application Essay Tips, 2024–2025 MIT Sloan wants you to make your pitch for admission in a somewhat unique application essay format: a business cover letter. Although the information the admissions committee wants is not that different from what most programs seek, the presentation might be a bit daunting for some candidates. Sloan also…
Tips for Your Duke Fuqua Application Essays
July 3, 2024
Duke Fuqua Application Essay Tips, 2024-2025 Duke Fuqua presents its applicants with one of the most creative, and maybe challenging, essay prompts out there—asking candidates to come up with a list of more than two dozen “random” bits of information about themselves. Then, applicants need to craft a more traditional essay in which they explain…
Tips for Your Harvard Business School Application Essays
June 28, 2024
Harvard Business School Essay Tips, 2024-2025 For the first time in more than ten years, Harvard Business School (HBS) has changed the essay questions for its MBA application. This year’s essays veer away from the open-ended, 900-word “What more would you like us to know?” and toward three shorter essays. In these essays, HBS seeks…
Tips for Your Stanford Graduate School of Business Application Essays
June 24, 2024
Stanford GSB Application Essay Tips, 2024-2025 And then there were 1,000… The application essays for the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) are among the more expansive and demanding of those for the top MBA programs; the GSB truly wants to get to know you. With a 650-word essay that necessitates some soul-searching, 350 words…